Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hands. In the seventh Tyng hit hard to Blogg, who caught it well. Tower followed with a base-hit, reached second on Carl's poor throw, and third on Thayer's base-hit. The ball was then in Woodhead's hands, who tossed it to pitcher; and Thayer attempted to reach second, but was cut off by Snigg. Tower failed to attempt home, thus losing Harvard's best chance for a run. Ernst then retired by a fly to Blogg. In the eighth two men were out, when Lanahan made a base on Wright's fumble, and took second...
...hottest days of July, when not a single one of the dozen large windows was ever opened. And there we had to sit and breathe, however much we might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching our ears through a poisoned medium. Though an attempt was made on the part of Americans to admit the pure air, Professor Curtius was petitioned by the Germans to allow the windows to remain closed. In winter the case is still worse, and at the end of the hour the American student, who has been used to better things...
...read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...made their acceptance of the terms depend upon the condition that assurances should be given that the rest of the class would do nothing to prevent the result they expected from being reached. This mode of procedure was looked upon by the representatives of another faction as an attempt at dictation, and they refused to enter into any such understanding, or, as long as that condition was adhered to, to have anything to do with the proposed arrangement. Here the matter rests. All attempts to secure a Class Day have been finally abandoned, and a proposition is now under consideration...
...matchless voice, and at the same time the wretched insufficiency of Lyceum Hall for such a piece. In response to an encore he sang Millard's "Grand Old Ocean" in a manner which can only be imagined by those who have heard him before, and which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired...